But Pam would only tell the network: “I’m sure all of this will become abundantly clear but right now I’m doing my work as a senator.”

I wonder if she’d have accepted that answer from a pol when she was CTV’s Ottawa bureau chief.

Funny, but CTV’s current Ottawa chief, Robert Fife, dug up the Wallin story. I used to sign Bob’s expenses when I was Toronto Sun editor — they were always modest, I swear — before he went to a hairstylist and became one of Canada’s best TV reporters.

As for Duffy, he claims to hang his hat on Prince Edward Island, which he represents. Well, actually, it’s his cottage. He’s lived in suburban Ottawa for decades, but he still claims the out-of-towner housing allowance ($20,000 per year) because, he says, the forms are confusing.

Ooopsy. Now old Duff says he’s returned some dough, though he won’t be specific. As he told his former employee, CBC:

“I hope it reassures Islanders and Canadians that the old Duff, the Duff they’ve known and trusted, would never do anything wrong. I would never knowingly fiddle anything.”

Wozzat? Anne of Green Gables?

I wonder if Duffy would have accepted that response from a pol when he was CBC’s lead reporter in Ottawa.

I don’t know what the independent auditor will find on Wallin and Duffy et al, but I can guess the verdict of any independent taxpayer: “Bullsh--!”

I bet a few other senators are fidgeting while the auditor roams. The upper chamber has suckled with little supervision for eons. But journos in the cookie jar?